p. 94. 



1872.] ON THE BIRDS OF CELEBES. 193 



Ilah. Menado {mus. nostr.) ; Ayer-panuas, 12th of August, adult male, ITtli of August, 

 adult female, 26th of August, female, 19th of August, young, one day old ; Panybie, 9th of 

 September, female of the year ; Limbotto, ith of September, female of the year, 31st of August, 

 male and female of the year, 2Sth of August, female {Vo)i Bosenhenj) ; Amboyna {Mus. Lugd.) ; 

 Bouru {tDpe). 



Professor Schlegel, in his admirable list of the birds of the Leyden Museum, the most 

 perfect and practically useful work of its kind ever published, identifies the Celebean bird with 

 that described by Mr. Wallace from Bouru. Temminck's MS. title of hcematopus had never been 

 hitherto used, except by Bonaparte (Comptes Rend, xliii. p. GOO, 1856), and then only as a 

 synonym of the nearly allied G. tenehrosa, Gould (P. Z. S. 1846, p. 20). I have therefore retained 

 Mr. Wallace's title for the species. It must, however, be remembered that no actual com- Tr. Z. S. viii. 

 parison appears as yet to have been made between Bouru and Celebean examples. 



149. Gallinula orientalis, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 195, " Java " (1822). 

 Gallinula ardosiacea, Vieill. Galerie, ii. p. 173, pi. 208, "Java" (1825). 



Hab. Java {Ilorsjield) ; INIacassar ( Wallace). 



An example of an adult male Moor-hen, closely resembling the common European species, was 

 collected by Mr. Wallace at Macassar. It differs from G. chloropus in its smaller dimensions, and 

 the size and form of the frontal plate. I have been unable to compare it with Javan individuals ; 

 but I shall provisionally adopt the title of the race which inhabits Java. Wing 5|, tarsus If, 

 bill from anterior side of plate to tip ^\q, greatest breadth of frontal plate ^-q-. 



Ertthra, Reichenbach. 



150. Ertthra phcemcura (Forsten), Zool. Ind. p. 19, pi. 9, "Ceylon" (1781). 



Ilah. Macassar {Beinwardt) ; Gorontalo, adult male, 20th of April, 17th of July, ]st of 

 August — male with some black spots on sides of head, 26th of May ; Negrielama, male in first 

 plumage, 20th of September {Von Bosenhenj) ; Gorontalo, male in imperfect plumage, October 

 {Forsten) ; Bangka, Java, Borneo {Mus. Lugd.) ; China, summer visitant (?), Formosa {Swinhoe) ; 

 throughout India {.Terdoii) ; Ceylon {ttjpc) ; Zamboanga (Mindanao) ( Von Martens) ; Malayan 

 peninsula {Eyton). 



Orttgometra, Linnaeus. 



151. Orttgometra cinerea (Vieillot), Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxviii. p. 29 (1819), ex Java; 

 Pucheran, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1851, p. 563 ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Balli, p. 32. 



Ortygometra quadristrigata (Horsf.), Finsch et Hartl. Fauna Centralpolyn. p. 164, 

 Hah. Gorontalo, April 21, May 23 ; Ayer-pannas, August 25, female in first plumage, 

 August 25 {Von Bosenherg). 



For the geographical distribution of this species and its complete synonymy, exclusive of 

 the title, conf. Finsch and Hartl. /. c. Those gentlemen seemed to have overlooked in this and 

 in one or two other instances Dr. Pucheran's valuable notices of the types contained in the Paris 

 Museum. According to the learned doctor, Pori)lnjr'to clnereus, Vieill., was collected in Java by 



